SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 80, 24 May 1911, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

si j " ° ;(Per Press Association.) [ " Auckland. May 24. if’At the Supreme Court Walter Francis Darby, a bankrupt merchant, whose case was recently before the Appeal Court, came up for sentence on seven charges of breaches of tho Bankruptcy Act. Judge Chapman said there was no evidence of fraudulent intent—rather of recklessness, perhaps caroler,tineas; Taking into consideration what accused had already suffered he imposed only a nominal penalty of two months’ hard labour, which‘.would date from his cor:victim, and therefore would have been already served. Thomas McDonald, clerk at tin Lank of Now Zealand, charged with theft and falsifying a ledger, was sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour! Frederick Thomas Marryn, charged with theft from vessels, was sentenced to two years on each of twit charges and declared an habitual criminal. Charles Kiwi Wilkinson, a halfcaste Maori aged 18, and Charles Boyd, aged 21, were sentenced for forgery, uttering and conspiring to defraud, the former to 18 months’ reformatory treatment on one charge and ordered to come up for sentence on the others; and Boyd to IS months’ imprisonment.